Tag Archives: Racism

Black History Month: African Americans Warned of Long History of Psychiatrists and Psychologists’ Racism and Its Legacy in Today’s Mental Health System

Scientific research shows Blacks are more likely than Whites to be labeled with a mental disorder related to disruptive, defiant, or psychotic behavior, to be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility, and to be physically, mechanically, or chemically restrained, and for a longer time. Continue reading

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CCHR Renews Call for Laws to Prohibit Restraining Children with Drugs After Use in Psychiatric Facilities Rose 141%

Young, male, Black, and economically disadvantaged children were disproportionately restrained with antipsychotic drugs. Continue reading

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CCHR Warns New Study Indicates Black Patients in Psychiatric Facilities More Likely to Be Restrained and For Longer

Researchers suggest the racial disparity may be evidence of systemic racism in psychiatry, call for measures to reduce the use of restraints. Continue reading

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Tolerance and Intolerance in Psychiatry

Our reference here is the book Tolerance – The Liberation of Mankind, by Hendrik Willem van Loon, originally published in 1925. The volume we have was independently published on June 12, 2021, by an unnamed source. As the book says, it … Continue reading

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Mental Illness Manual Revision Is Criticized Over Racism Entry

A revised mental disorders diagnostic manual being released this month already faces controversy. Continue reading

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Planned Parenthood = Planned Extermination

Psychiatrists promoted the false science of eugenics. Continue reading

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Task Force Against Racism & Modern Day Eugenics

Rampant abuse of African Americans within the mental health industry continues to this day. Continue reading

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Psychiatry Profiting from Community Tragedy and Racism

Racism: Psychiatry’s Hidden Betrayal Masked as “mental health help!” Continue reading

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How psychiatry Creates Racism

Two largely unsuspected groups are actively and deceptively fostering racism throughout the world. Continue reading

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The Racism of Psychiatry

We generally think of racism as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. In Nazi Germany, this idea took on a slightly different slant, as the … Continue reading

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